Research Centers

Strategic Centers

• The Center for High Technology Materials (CHTM)
  CHTM is an interdisciplinary research organization involving faculty and students from physics, optical sciences, Electrical and Computer Engineering, as well as other engineering and science departments.
• The UNM Center for Micro-Engineered Materials (CMEM)
  CMEM serves as a focal point for materials science research and education at UNM. CMEM manages the UNM/Rutgers Ceramic and Composite Materials Center, CCMC, a NSF Industry University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC). CMEM provides leadership for the State of New Mexico NSF EPSCoR initiative in nanotechnology.
• High Performance Computing and Educational Research Center (HPCERC)
  The Center for High Performance Computing is the focal point for all aspects of high performance computing at the University of New Mexico. The Center is organized around vertically integrated teams that combine research in systems, middleware, and algorithms to enable fundamental scientific and engineering advances.
  

School of Engineering Research Centers and Institutes

• The Center for Biomedical Engineering (CBME)
  CBME is dedicated to the creation of materials, devices and knowledge for the advancement of health care and biomedicine. It is an interdisciplinary center that coordinates research activities in biomedical engineering at UNM. We are a focal point for future educational activities in biomedical engineering. We serve as a portal for biotech interactions between UNM and National Laboratories, industry partnerships and other educational institutions within New Mexico and outside of New Mexico.

• Manufacturing Training and Technology Center MTTC
  MTTC is located at the UNM Science and Technology Park at 800 Bradbury Drive, Albuquerque NM. The new 56,000 SF facility will support teaching and training, research and development, start-up companies, manufacturing prototyping, and extension service activities. The MTTC will house offices, labs, classrooms, multi-media production studio, prototyping bays, CAD rooms, and a 6,200 SF cleanroom.

• Intelligent Systems Engineering
  The ISE Center is funded by a five-year NASA Group 2 University Research Centers (URC) grant for support of minority graduate studies related to NASA strategic enterprises. The focus of the center is on the design of intelligent systems, that is, systems with a high degree of autonomy. Current areas of investigation include cooperative satellite arrays, cooperative robotics, diagnostics of turbulent flow, fuzzy-logic modelling, intelligent biomedical engineering, and intelligent image processing
• Institute for Space & Nuclear Power Studies ISNPS
  ISNPS was founded in 1984 as a research and development organization within UNM's School of Engineering with a focus on space power and propulsion technologies and related fields. In addition to its R&D mission, ISNPS offers educational and professional training and conducts research in many fields of space nuclear power and space systems technology in cooperation with UNM's Department of Chemical and Nuclear Engineering . ISNPS is the organizing entity for the annual Space Technology and Applications International Forum (STAIF), which includes an educational outreach and annual space design competition segment for pre-college students.
• Alliance for Transportation Research Institute ATRI
  The ATR Institute (ATRI) recently celebrated its 13th anniversary as a nationally recognized research. Using an interdisciplinary approach, the ATRI is making contributions to transportation policy in the areas of smart growth, public transportation, research and planning, environmental impacts, intermodal transportation, rural transit, and public policy research. 
• Waste Management Education Research Consortium WERC
  WERC is a partnership that leverages environmental expertise from throughout New Mexico, thus it is comprised of:
  •   New Mexico State University (its administrative location),
  •   University of New Mexico,
  •   New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology,
  •   Diné College,
  •   Sandia National Laboratories and
  •   Los Alamos National Laboratory.
  The consortium's mission is to develop the human resources and technologies needed to address environmental issues. WERC has come to be widely recognized for its commitment to the nation's environment and natural resources.

Alliances

Advanced Materials Laboratory AML
The Advanced Materials Laboratory (AML) is a Sandia National Laboratories facility located on the campus of the University of New Mexico (UNM). Sandia's commitment of research staff, state-of-the-art laboratory facilities and program support to the AML provides a novel opportunity for strong partnerships between national laboratory and university research.

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